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Let the spirit of McGyver nerd flow through you and out your fingers…or just clobber it together like I do with twisties and zip strips and call it a day!

My suggestion would be to see if you can find a Windows Gadget (right click on desktop and select from menu) that is a multiple event alarm clock that you can schedule.

Just dont’ have any schedules that overlap with each other if they are installed concurrently or schedule anything else hard drive related at the same time.

I agree, but for that to work, his computers should be able to contact the router. As it stands, it seems to me that they have hard wired IPs of the type 192.168.0.x, so they will never be able to access the router on a 192.168.1.x address. The first thing must be configuring the PCs to get their IP through DHCP.

That’s true for that connection (the old one) but its been my experiece that when a new connection is sensed by Win 7 it pops up the new network connection dialogue and want to follow through on that one…and leave the old one behind…start a new network/Internet connection dialogue if it doesn’t automatically start, and if all else fails in the beginning. delete that network connection outright and reboot…computer should then seek a new connection…heck, XP was/is so hopped up to help out a new connection that it will sense a stronger wireless connection and hop across to it without even so much as a popup.
So yes, I understand where you’re coming from, but it should not be a problem…as I said, do not let or get the old ISP connection involved…if it goes deeper than that then use a computer that was not configured with the help of the ISP.
You may have to do the 4th item before 2 and 3 to get the browser to locate the modem…depends on how the computer reacts…how locked down it is by the ISP.

1. Hard reset the modem…you’ll see the lights all blink off when its been long enough and the modem starts to reset.

Then tried powering on and no go.

Modem has to be on and operating for hard reset.

Hey, are we going to keep yakkin about stuff and looking at screenshots? I thought it was pretty clear by now that the new connection is configured on the computer instead of in the modem/router, where it belongs for a proper network to be set up. Even if it were not the case, its not fuctioning as desired, so where does one start, at the head or at the tail? For me, its the head, especially when the head isn’t responding to the 192.168.1.1 call, and none of the numbers in any of the posts looks right for a properly working network…none.
Resistance is futile at this point.
1. Hard reset the modem…you’ll see the lights all blink off when its been long enough and the modem starts to reset.
2. Log onto the modem with a Internet browser, address 192.168.1.1
3. Enter you account I.D. and password, both ISP provided and establish your Internet connection with your ISP.
4. If a new network dialogue window does not start go to the Network and sharing center and set up a new network.
5. At no time, let any ISP configuration to happen on any computer or take over any of the process…all you want is a local I.P. address to the modem that will be in whatever range is in the default distribution range. It will be somewhere in the 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.199 range. If in fact that was the range (I’m sure its smaller than that but you get the idea), then 197 network connections could be made to that one modem/router…that’s how a network works…lets get there.

Edit. I should say 197 network connections could be made automatically…one can make even more by specifying static I.P. addresses out of the auto DHCP TCP/IP range. This is a 5 minute job…not a 60 post job!

Is this a @live email account or @hotmail or something else you are trying to get to work through WLM? Sounds like whichever it is it is not configured correctly in the account settings. Usually, if its Yahoo (needs to be a paid for account) or Hotmail or Live or Gmail there is a configuration page in the web-email account settings options for forwarding or downloading mail to a client like WLM. Did you follow that procedure?

Did you install the printer on the Win7 WS as if you were going to use it there? It sounds like you did but I’m just verifying. There it works fine from what I read, but then when you move the printer back to the W2k server its a no go?
You worded another part a little odd too but again I think you did the right thing. When you say you altered the working USB destination to connect via TCP/IP to the hostname…you mean you just altered the printer port on the Win7 WS from USB-1 to the network pathname of the shared network printer?

If the above two are correct, that should have worked. unless; I haven’t heard of any registry alteration, and its a W2K system, and I don’t know if that is compatible with Win 7. Seems like it should be but I know of stranger things than that!

Yes, esmd3, when we talk or write of logging in or getting to the configuration settings of a device, in this case, the Westel modem, its always with a browser where you enter the I.P. number directly into the address bar and instead of going out on the Internet to a page on some computer there, it goes to the Westell modem.

Its a bit of a Catch22 that I haven’t mentioned before but if neither of the two numbers will go to the Westell modem, that probably means that DHCP broadcast has been disabled and if that’s the case, then there is no “address” to log into. It will be like you are knocking at the door but the Westell modem just ignores it. In that case you will have to do a hard reset with the little tiny button on the modem…holding it in for 30 seconds will do (some are only 15 secs but others are 30). If you don’t have your connection information from the last connection you set up with Verizon, you will need to get that so when you go to 192.168.1.1 in your browser again, and get into the Westell modem settings, you can enter your connection info (account ID and account password).

Edit additional; about ICS, yes that is an option but its like 3rd on the list when all else has failed–its the “Oh yeah, think you can keep me from using more than one computer on your connection Verizon…take that!”
Its not that bad, but, Verizon’s obligation ends with ONE successful Internet connection, its up to us to configure the “unauthorized” network.

Yes, it looks very configurable (downloaded the manual) and much like mine so if esmd3 connected an ethernet cable directly to the modem, should be able to get to those settings with the 192.168.1.1 default gateway address, unless it was changed at some point.
I think either some settings from the former USB connection are erroneously in force, the settings per computer are erroneous (don’t need any DSL software on any system messing with things) or the DHCP settings for local LAN are messed up. The fact that Verizon set up a new connection and it hasn’t worked properly since then seems very telling. I think its the kind of thing that someone who knows how the connections should be and what the gateway and local I.P. number should be, could fix in a jiffy…so if you know someone like that who wouldn’t mind taking a look…a small bribe maybe…six pack of diet Mt. Dew would do if for me.

If you have the Verizon connection information handy, you could even do a nice little hard reset of the modem, then go in and enter the connection info again and the default settings should work.

I don’t want to complicate the senario with connection ports and settings data if another router is placed inbetween the modem/router and the computers at this point so I would just use the one computer direct for setup or with just the switch inbetween.

I’ve gone so far as to replace my mobo with a retail one that came with XP drivers …very serious stuff!

I’m having little function errors with the latest Corel product line (X3 versions) and Win7 that are not there with XP on the same system. Also when I render video, four cores a blazin’, I get right around 50% processor utilization in Win 7. Same program, very similar project and same system running XP; about 92% processor utilization. Ahhh, they don’t build’em like they use to!

Johnny-come-lately here but everything seems to point to the Westel modem. If its like my Westel DSL/Router modem, you’ve got to log into that bad boy and see if its boadcasting DHCP. It had to have been at one point since you only had a switch connected to that and still had all computers connected. Well, it doesn’t look as if its working now. My Westel default is 192.168.1.1. At one point you get a 192.168.0.250 so your’s may be 192.168.0.1. Are you accessing the Westel configuration pages at all? Even if DHCP is active you have to make sure it didn’t get set to a one number range so that only one computer at a time gets a local I.P. address (a usefull tool, but also possibly a nasty trick of the trade). For mine that’s under Configuration/Private LAN.

Don’t need any of the ICS stuff, don’t need any software on any computer at all with a switch (and working DHCP enabled modem/router) or router going into the modem. I have a router going into a router going into my Westell DSL modem/router and two wireless networks…so I essentially have 5 networks (though the modem/router is highly constrained) and not a lick of software or special settings on any computer other than I specify some static local I.P. addresses so I can always find a computer on the local network by its I.P. address.

If you have a configurable Westel modem, the new connection they set you up with seems bogus to me and I’d dig into those settings and see what’s up, especially those concerning the DHCP settings and what those numbers are set to both actually and in what range.

Is MSE all that I need to protect my computer or should I be running additional security applications.

Any advice for this novice computer user appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I think MSE is fine, also occasionally scaning with something like MalwareBytes is fine, browser updates, hardware firewall, all fine.
The most important thing to remember though is that none of that stuff will protect you from yourself if you’re determined to get a bug. Its like driving a car. You can get the most highly rated car for safety possible, but you can still drive that car right into a tree and get hurt or killed, so the bottom line is that you still have to pay very close attention to EVERYTHING. Humans are much more susceptible to social engeneering than computers

Gateway was one of the first to stop supporting XP with chipset drivers, so I’m pretty sure you had to find them elsewhere. How sure are you that you have the correct SATA drivers for XP? I have two Gateways that aren’t even that new (early Vista era) and it was a bear finding chipset drivers for those. If you are sure you have the correct ones, rather than use a floppy, I’ve had much better luck making a one-off XP installation disc with NLite where the SATA drivers are integrated into the install disc. Also look into driverpacks.net, which may include the drivers you need if you’re not sure.

Repartition, good idea, its a poor man’s workaround to GParted, but if perchance repartitioning doesn’t work or only partly works, did the possibly dearly departed leave behind a no resuscitate order?
If not, I’d still try writing a new partition table with GParted before going meekly into the night that is forever. Its safe to use as long as you only have that one partition of that size and select that from the dropdown. You can even test that you have the right one by unplugging the drive and then rescanning the drives with GParted, the one that disappears is definitely the USB flash drive.

I don’t know if you’ve ever said or not but does it behave normally when its a FAT32 formatted drive?